Improvement in felting for coats,, hats



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARMADUKE OSBORNE, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FELTING FOR COATS, HATS, 8 o.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 2,646, dated May 23, 1842.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARMADUKE Osnoaun, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invcnteda new'and Improved Mode of Making Gloves, Hose, Coats, and other Articles of WearingApparel of which wool, hair, or fur is the principal or only material; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

The material being formed into bats by any of the usual processes of bowing, whetherby manipulation or machinery, two or more of such bats are laid together, one upon the other. An inlayer or pattern of paper, silk, muslin, or any suitable materiahcut in the form of the article required, is laid between each two bats, covering all parts of the surfaces of both which are not to be united. The inlayer or pattern is to be applied to the bats in their soft state; and the parts or surfaces of the two whichga're not covered by such inlayer are to be united in a projecting seam by any of the usual processes of felting-that is, the margins, edges, or surfaces of any two bats which are laid together and not covered by such inlayer, or not kept separate from each other by the same, are

to be united by iressnre said 'lIBSSlllG .tech- The making of gloves, coats, hose, or other article of wearing-apparel of which WOOL-hair, or fur is the only material, by uniting by any process of felting the bats of which any seen article is composed in a flat or projecting seam, and by cutting away the superfluous. parts after such seam is formed by felting, as above described, and without the folding or turning over of the edges or margins of the bats which are used in the ordinary process of makinghats.

MARMADUKE OSBORNE.

Witnesses:

O. S. WOODHULL, RUSSELL JARVIS. 

